By Stew Thompson, CAS DataLoggers, Inc., Chesterland, OH An electrical utility company needed to send alarms from remote stations in the event that the local power grid went down, and in other special cases including operational faults and security breaches. The entire time a substation was off the grid, an area was without power, so an advanced ...

By the Heidenhain Staff, Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbHLinear motors have made serious inroads into highly dynamic applications such as manufacturing and measuring equipment in the semiconductor industry, in PCB assembly machines, textile machines and in automation. Direct drives for open and closed-loop control require continuous real ...

By Bernard Sutton, Product Marketing Manager, Valor Division, Mentor Graphics Corp., Wilsonville, OR Quality assurance (QA) has long been the recognized term and method for manufacturing quality processes. But we should question this, as additional benefit can be gained from focusing on Quality Control (QC). These benefits can move quality from a "non value- added cost" to actually ...

By Jensen Huddleston, Marketing Manager, RMI Laser, LLC, Lafayette, COIn the past, CO2 and Nd: YAG lasers dominated the marking, cutting and welding of industrial tooling and manufactured goods. These laser types were the first to be brought to the marketplace and they were quite useful for their time. Focusing solely on the laser marking side ...